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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21743)	10/15/2004 9:10:53 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81094

"...we are losing this war" The opinion of Pat Buchanan amconmag.com >>Support for Bush’s decision to invade was overwhelming a year ago. Today, a majority of Americans believe the cost of ridding Iraq of Saddam was too high. Kerry now says Bush made a mistake going in and, if he wins, we will be out in four years. But, Senator, how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? At the root of the insurgency—the goal of every enemy fighter—is a determination to drive America out. Our presence, our use of tanks, Bradleys, gunships and fighter-bombers, causing inevitable civilian casualties, is recruiting more enemy than we are killing. That the number of enemy and incidence of attacks have multiplied fourfold in a year forces us to one conclusion: we are losing this war. For the guerrilla wins if he does not lose, and the Iraqi insurgents are not losing. How do we win this war? How do we end it? How do we get out without leaving an Iraq that is a far graver terror threat than any Saddam Hussein ever presented?<< That, indeed, is the question now, but in time, as in Vietnam, just getting out will be enough. The situation is analogous to selling a share in a bear market where, initially, the investor tries to break even, and fails, then tries to sell on a rally and also fails to do that, and finally, is just happy to sell at any price because it's not possible to do anything else. The problem is actually the ego. While the investor believes he can still win, he will actually lose more. It's only when he realizes, and accepts, that he is beaten, and has to get out at any price, that he has a chance of retrieving any of his money. It's the same in Iraq. The US has lost. It should get out NOW, while it can. Unfortunately the ego of the politicians is paid for by the blood of the soldiers, and the politicians don't give a damn about the soldiers. So more lives must be lost, and more, and more, until sanity prevails, if it ever does.